... All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed. The glorious Medieval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear...

Who was paying him to do his dirty deed on WIKI? We need to follow the money...not the globull commie fruitcakes and useful idiots. My guess is that it ends at some Goldman Sacs/Al Gore carbon trading scheme on Wall Street.

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posted on 12/19/2009 5:25:47 PM PST
by penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")

The existence of Wikipedia gives one a reason to wonder what the KGB would have made of such a tool had the Sov empire not collpased. Ah, well. Remnant KGB like this guy are seemingly up to the job of propgating lie after lie after lie after lie...

When Connolley didnt like the subject of a certain article, he removed it  more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred  over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to "Connolleys global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedias blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed.

Minister Guilefare is in charge of "rectifying" historical records in the Ministry of Truth so they will concord with Big Brother's climate change pronouncements...

(George Orwell was not an author, he was a prophet who used novels to foretell the future!)

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posted on 12/19/2009 5:35:48 PM PST
by Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)

Ok, IF this can be verified (just sayin'), and IF Connelley is still a professor, then this is tantamount to academic fraud. His current employer should be presented with these facts and fire him (does Churchill ring a bell).

- Traveler

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posted on 12/19/2009 5:51:27 PM PST
by Traveler59
(Truth is a journey, not a destination.)

"Heres a quote I found from Jimmy Wales about Connolley: It takes a long time to deal with troublemakers, admits Jimmy Wales, the encyclopaedias co-founder. Connolley has done such amazing work and has had to deal with a fair amount of nonsense.

One reason why no college course I have taken allows Wikipedia to be cited as a Primary (?) or Secondary source.

Wikipedia is an incredibly useful reference guide and is no more, or less, biased than any other source of information. It is up to the user to do his own fact checking. Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

I say again: Wikipedia is gigantically useful for any sort of topic for which no controversy could possibly exist. For anything involving any sort of controversy no matter how slight, wiki is utterly worthless.

It’s incredible to think about this persons attitude to his fellow man. How incredibly stupid, and worthless he believes other men are. His self esteem must make it quite difficult to communicate without at some point a desire to knock the shit out of him.

I’ve met his sort before. No, I didn’t knock the shit out of them as I wanted to. I just left them to themselves. It seemed they were entertained.

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posted on 12/19/2009 7:09:56 PM PST
by rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)

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